Virtual field trips across the curriculum.2012

Virtual Field Trips

Across the Curriculum

What is a Virtual Field Trip?

A digital experience that

moves us through space

and time to events,

people and places

throughout human and

natural history.

Alix E. Peshette, Coordinator for Digital Learning, Placer County Office of Education [email protected]

Effective Virtual Field Trips…


• Provide inquiry-based learning

• Touch all learning modalities

• Can be accessed anytime

Go on a Virtual Field Trip!

• Ancient Civilizations British Museum

• Blues Journey The Kennedy Center Arts Edge

• Welcome to Ellis Island Scholastic.com

• Mt. Saint Helens Crater Summit


http://ancientcivilizations.co.uk/home_set.html

http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/multimedia/series/AudioStories/blues-journey.aspx


http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/tour/index.htm

http://www.fullscreen360.com/st-helens





Essential Question & Learning Task

Develop questions

that require analysis,

interpretation, inference

and synthesis

Why?

How?

Which?

Create a Great Virtual Field Trip


Elements of a Virtual Field Trip

Essential Question and Learning

Task

Information Resources

Student Activities

Assessment Activity and Rubric

Enrichment Activities

Instructor Support Materials


• Text

• Images

• Video

• Audio

• Narration

• Live Web Cams

• Primary Documents

• Maps

• Data

• Interactive Activities

• Simulations

• 3D Panoramas

Media for Virtual Field Trips


http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsc&fileName=001//llsc001.db&recNum=2

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsc&fileName=001//llsc001.db&recNum=2

http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/starspangledbanner/interactive-flag.aspx

http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/starspangledbanner/interactive-flag.aspx

http://www.history.com/topics/statue-of-liberty/videos

http://www.history.com/topics/statue-of-liberty/videos



http://www.nps.gov/edis/photosmultimedia/upload/EDIS-SRP-0014-17.mp3

http://www.nps.gov/edis/photosmultimedia/upload/EDIS-SRP-0014-17.mp3

http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/WebCams/




http://www.rarebookroom.org/

http://www.rarebookroom.org/

http://www.archives.gov/midatlantic/exhibits/allegheny-arsenal/antietam-map.html

http://www.archives.gov/midatlantic/exhibits/allegheny-arsenal/antietam-map.html

http://www.google.com/publicdata/home

http://www.google.com/publicdata/home

http://www.learner.org/interactives/geometry/index.html

http://www.learner.org/interactives/geometry/index.html

http://whyfiles.org/category/interactives/

http://whyfiles.org/category/interactives/

http://www.fullscreen360.com/st-helens.htm



Packaging a Virtual Field Trip

• Think of this as the suitcase that holds all

the resources

• Lots of ways to “package” a virtual field

trip; depending on the tech skill level of

the instructor and students


Easy Tech Skills

• Digital Word Doc or PDF with links

• PowerPoint with links

• Shared folder with web links



Intermediate-to-Very Techie Skills

• Delicious

• Google Sites

• VoiceThread

• MuseumBox



• Google Maps

• Google Earth

• Prezi

http://delicious.com/tag/virtual field trips

http://sites.google.com/

http://voicethread.com/

http://museumbox.e2bn.org/about/

http://tinyurl.com/google-map-VFT

http://www.google.com/earth/index.html

http://www.google.com/earth/index.html

http://prezi.com/

Evaluating a Virtual Field Trip

• Is this a quality presentation?

• Is information current and accurate?

• Are support materials appropriate?

• Is this a good use of the Web or

would a video, book, or other tool

be as effective?


Copyright-Free Resources

U.S. National Park Service

• Photos and Multimedia

• History and Culture

• For Teachers Section

• Podcasts

• Web Cams


http://www.nps.gov/index.htm




http://www.nps.gov/learn/

http://www.nps.gov/learn/

Library of Congress

Photographs

Video

Audio

Music

Interviews

Documents

Maps


San Francisco City Hall

after the 1906 earthquake

American Memory

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

• Multimedia Gallery

• Classroom Resources


National Science Foundation

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

• NOAA Central Library

• Education Resources

http://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/

http://www.nsf.gov/news/classroom/



http://www.lib.noaa.gov/

http://www.education.noaa.gov/?full



Panorama Resources

• The New Seven Wonders of the World

• Mt. Saint Helens

• Chichen Itza

• California Missions

• Stonehenge

• The Alhambra

• The Great Wall of China


Share your virtual field trip!

http://www.panoramas.dk/7-wonders/

http://www.panoramas.dk/7-wonders/



http://www.fullscreen360.com/chichen-itza-mexico.html

http://virtualguidebooks.com/Thematic/CaliforniaMissions.php



http://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/content/panoramas/stonehenge_1_360.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/content/panoramas/stonehenge_1_360.shtml

http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200604/alhambra/tourmenu.htm

http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200604/alhambra/tourmenu.htm

http://www.thebeijingguide.com/great_wall_of_china/index.html


